I couldn't find anything on this on the forums or google, I'm creating pages on a cloned template, the template has a relation to the extended user template of many to one:

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<cms:editable type='relation' name='ticket_user' masterpage='users/index.php' has='one' label='Ticket Relation' desc='Which user does ticket belong to?' />

Now creating a new cloned page works fine using databound forms but I cannot populate the relation automatically.. The logged-in user creating the page should be assigned to the relation.
I tried just submitting a global variable and when that didn't work I tried the below input:

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<cms:input type="hidden" value="<cms:show k_user_title />" name="username" />

along with:

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    <cms:db_persist_form 
        _invalidate_cache='0'
        _auto_title='1'
      status='Open'
      ticket_user=frm_username
    />   

but ticket_user is never filled, perhaps this is not possible within db_persist_form? I've never tried to automatically assign a relation like this before. Any thoughts?

[trendoman]

Hi, now we are talking

The logged-in user creating the page should be assigned to the relation.

Relation fields require IDs, so it should be like ticket_user=k_user_id

You are wonderful, thank you I was scratching my head at that for some time!

[trendoman]

You are wonderful, thank you I was scratching my head at that for some time!

Welcome. Don't waste time, come to chat with anything that takes more than 5 minutes to figure out